Picture of the Day - Friendly Falcon

This afternoon into early this evening I worked the Sixth Annual Atascadero Lakeside Wine Festival at Atascadero Lake Park. While conducting alcohol control on the spillway approach to the park I noticed this falcon lingering around the edges of the crowd utterly unperturbed by human proximity and perhaps even somewhat drawn to it. I wonder if this animal was once rehabilitated at a facility for injured/abandoned wildlife. Photo by Kim Patrick Noyes (all rights reserved).